The Sicilian Farmer

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Privacy Policy for The Sicilian Farmer

Last updated: July 11, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Beaver Ridge Farmstead LLC d/b/a The Sicilian Farmer collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when You use Our Website, create an account, place an order, subscribe to a plan, contact Us, interact with Our content, or otherwise use Our Service.

We use Your Personal Data to provide, operate, secure, improve, and market Our Service, including Our WordPress/WooCommerce online store. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Service is intended for users located in the United States. We do not currently ship products to Europe, including the European Union, European Economic Area, or United Kingdom. If You access the Website from outside the United States, You are responsible for compliance with local laws, and You understand that Your information may be processed in the United States.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words whose initial letters are capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access Our Service or parts of Our Service.
  • Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, membership interest, or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
  • Company refers to Beaver Ridge Farmstead LLC d/b/a The Sicilian Farmer, 111 Beaver Ridge Rd., Freedom, ME 04941, referred to as either “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Privacy Policy.
  • Cookies are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or other device by a website, containing information about Your browsing activity, preferences, session, cart, account, or other website interactions.
  • Country refers to Maine, United States.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cell phone, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
  • Personal Data means any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website and related online services offered by The Sicilian Farmer, including account features, WooCommerce store features, checkout, orders, subscriptions, payment processing, shipping, customer service, marketing, and related functionality.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company. Service Providers may include hosting providers, content delivery networks, security providers, payment processors, shipping providers, analytics providers, advertising platforms, email providers, and other vendors who help Us operate the Service.
  • Usage Data means data collected automatically, either generated by use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself, such as page visits, device information, browser information, IP address, request data, timestamps, and diagnostic information.
  • Website refers to The Sicilian Farmer, accessible from https://thesicilianfarmer.com/.
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, business, organization, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You.

Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Billing address
  • Shipping address
  • City, state, province, ZIP/postal code, and country
  • Account username and account details
  • Order information
  • Subscription information
  • Products purchased or viewed
  • Customer notes, delivery instructions, and order comments
  • Return, refund, and customer-service communications
  • Marketing preferences
  • Usage Data

E-Commerce, WooCommerce, Orders, and Subscriptions

Because We operate an online store using WordPress and WooCommerce, We may collect and process information needed to operate Our store, fulfill Orders, manage customer Accounts, process Subscriptions, provide customer service, prevent fraud, calculate taxes, arrange shipping, process returns or refunds, and maintain business records.

This information may include Your name, email address, phone number, billing address, shipping address, account username, order history, products purchased, subscription status, customer notes, delivery instructions, refund or return requests, and communications with Us.

Payment information is processed through third-party payment processors. We may receive limited payment-related information, such as payment status, transaction identifiers, billing details, fraud-screening information, and confirmation that payment was completed. We do not intentionally collect or store full payment card numbers on Our Website unless expressly disclosed.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as:

  • Your Device’s Internet Protocol address, such as IP address
  • Browser type and browser version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages of Our Service that You visit
  • Time and date of Your visit
  • Time spent on pages
  • Referring URLs
  • Requested URLs
  • Unique device identifiers
  • Diagnostic data
  • Security and request logs

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on Our Service, operate Our Website, process orders, maintain user sessions, protect the Website, improve performance, analyze traffic, support advertising, and store certain information.

Tracking technologies We use may include Cookies, browser storage, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts, log files, security identifiers, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used by Us, WordPress/WooCommerce, Our hosting, security, content delivery, analytics, advertising, payment, email, and other Service Providers.

The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A Cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of Our Service, including account login, shopping cart, checkout, subscription management, payment, security, or other Website features.
  • Web Beacons, Pixels, Tags, and Similar Technologies. Certain sections of Our Service and Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons, clear gifs, pixel tags, single-pixel gifs, tags, scripts, or similar technologies. These may permit the Company or Our Service Providers to count users who visited pages, opened emails, clicked links, viewed products, added products to a cart, completed purchases, interacted with advertisements, or performed other actions.
  • Server Logs, CDN Logs, Security Logs, and Request Data. When You access the Website, Our systems and Our Service Providers may automatically process technical information associated with Your request, such as IP address, browser type, user agent, device information, requested URL, referring URL, request headers, timestamps, traffic patterns, and diagnostic or security information.

Cookies can be Persistent or Session Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your Device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted when You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below.

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session and Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable core features. They help operate the Website, authenticate users, maintain account sessions, remember items in Your cart, support checkout, process orders, manage subscriptions, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts, and preserve Website security. Without these Cookies, the services You request may not be available.

WooCommerce, Cart, Checkout, Account, and Subscription Cookies

Type: Session and Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us, WordPress/WooCommerce, and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies help operate Our online store. They may be used to remember products You viewed, maintain Your shopping cart, support checkout, process payments, manage customer accounts, preserve login status, process subscriptions, remember billing or shipping information where permitted, and provide order-related functionality.

Security, CDN, Firewall, and Anti-Abuse Cookies

Type: Session and Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our security and content delivery Service Providers
Purpose: We use Bunny CDN and Bunny Shield to process user requests, deliver cached Website content, improve Website speed and reliability, protect the Website, apply web application firewall rules, mitigate attacks, detect bots, rate-limit abusive traffic, enforce access controls, troubleshoot performance issues, and protect Our origin servers. These services may process technical request data such as IP address, user agent, browser type, device information, requested URL, referring URL, request headers, timestamps, traffic patterns, security events, and related Usage Data.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies identify whether users have accepted, rejected, or managed cookie preferences on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Our Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies allow Us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as login details, account preferences, language preferences, region, shipping preferences, or other settings.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us and/or Third Parties
Purpose: These Cookies collect information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. They help Us understand page visits, product views, browsing patterns, cart activity, checkout activity, errors, device types, referral sources, and Website performance.

Advertising, Remarketing, and Social Media Cookies and Pixels

Type: Persistent Cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, or similar technologies
Administered by: Third Parties
Purpose: These technologies may be used to deliver advertisements, measure advertising performance, understand whether advertisements led to Website visits or purchases, create or measure audiences, limit how often You see ads, and show You ads that may be more relevant to Your interests.

You may be able to control Cookies through Your browser settings, device settings, privacy tools, cookie preference tools on Our Website, or opt-out tools provided by third parties. If You disable or reject certain Cookies, some parts of the Service may not function properly.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain Our Service, including monitoring usage of the Service.
  • To operate Our online store, including processing Orders, managing carts, checkout, payments, shipping, subscriptions, returns, refunds, customer accounts, and customer support.
  • To manage Your Account, including registration, login, account settings, order history, subscription access, and customer functionality.
  • For the performance of a contract, including fulfilling purchases, subscriptions, product shipments, customer requests, and other agreements with You.
  • To contact You, including by email, telephone, SMS, or other forms of communication regarding orders, subscriptions, payments, shipping, account activity, customer service, updates, security notices, product availability, or other service-related matters.
  • To provide You with news, special offers, promotions, discounts, product updates, and general information about goods, services, and events similar to those You have purchased or inquired about, unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests, including customer-service inquiries, return requests, refund requests, product questions, account requests, privacy requests, and other communications.
  • To secure, deliver, and optimize the Website, including routing user requests through content delivery networks, caching Website content, protecting against malicious traffic, DDoS attacks, bots, abuse, unauthorized access, and other security threats, and troubleshooting Website performance or availability issues.
  • To deliver targeted advertising or remarketing, including developing, displaying, and measuring advertisements and promotional content that may be tailored to Your interests.
  • For business transfers, including evaluating or conducting a merger, sale, financing, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other transfer of some or all of Our assets.
  • For legal, accounting, tax, compliance, and recordkeeping purposes, including retaining order history, transaction records, tax information, shipping records, and business records.
  • For other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining campaign effectiveness, improving Our Service, improving products, preventing fraud, and improving Your experience.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers who help Us operate the Website, host or secure the Website, provide content delivery, process payments, fulfill orders, provide shipping, manage email communications, analyze website usage, provide advertising, prevent fraud, or provide customer service.
  • With content delivery and security providers: We may share or make available technical request information, Usage Data, IP addresses, device information, browser information, request URLs, timestamps, and related diagnostic or security information with providers such as Bunny CDN and Bunny Shield to deliver, cache, secure, optimize, monitor, and troubleshoot the Website.
  • With payment processors: We may share transaction and billing-related information with payment processors to process payments, prevent fraud, manage disputes, issue refunds, and confirm transactions.
  • With shipping and fulfillment providers: We may share Your name, shipping address, email address, phone number, order information, and delivery instructions with shipping carriers and fulfillment providers to deliver products to You.
  • With analytics, advertising, and remarketing providers: We may share limited Usage Data, identifiers, cookie information, hashed identifiers, or event data to analyze traffic, measure advertising effectiveness, and advertise Our products.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our Affiliates, in which case We will require those Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
  • With business partners: We may share information with business partners where necessary to offer certain products, services, promotions, or integrated features.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring, or similar business transaction.
  • With legal authorities or as required by law: We may disclose Your Personal Data when required by law or in response to valid legal requests.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may retain Personal Data as necessary to:

  • provide the Service;
  • fulfill Orders and Subscriptions;
  • maintain customer accounts;
  • process returns, refunds, disputes, and customer-service requests;
  • comply with tax, accounting, legal, and regulatory obligations;
  • resolve disputes;
  • prevent fraud or abuse;
  • enforce Our agreements and policies;
  • maintain business records.

Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when used to strengthen security, improve functionality, troubleshoot issues, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be processed at the Company’s operating offices and in other places where the parties involved in processing are located. This means information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ.

The Service is operated from the United States. By using the Service or submitting information to Us, You understand that Your information may be processed in the United States.

The Company will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Accessing, Updating, or Deleting Your Personal Data

You may have the right to access, update, correct, or request deletion of Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may allow You to update or delete certain information from within Your Account. You may also contact Us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of Personal Data that You have provided to Us.

Please note that We may need to retain certain information when We have a legal obligation, contractual obligation, legitimate business need, accounting requirement, tax requirement, fraud-prevention need, security need, or other lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data becomes subject to a materially different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities, such as a court, regulator, or government agency.

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • comply with a legal obligation;
  • protect and defend the rights or property of the Company;
  • prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service;
  • protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public;
  • protect against legal liability;
  • prevent fraud, abuse, security threats, or unauthorized activity.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. We strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect Your Personal Data.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Detailed Information on Service Providers

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data or Usage Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information in accordance with their own privacy policies and contractual obligations to Us.

Website Platform and E-Commerce

We use WordPress and WooCommerce to operate Our Website and online store. These systems may process account information, order information, cart and checkout data, subscription data, customer communications, product views, and related Website activity.

Content Delivery Network and Website Security

We use Bunny CDN and Bunny Shield to process user requests, deliver cached Website content, improve Website speed and reliability, protect against attacks, detect bots, apply web application firewall rules, rate-limit abusive traffic, enforce access controls, and troubleshoot performance or security issues.

Bunny may process technical request data such as IP address, user agent, browser type, device information, requested URL, referring URL, request headers, timestamps, traffic patterns, security events, and related Usage Data.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze use of Our Service.

Service Providers may include:

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. Google may use collected data to monitor use of the Service and to contextualize or personalize ads within its advertising network. For more information, visit:
    https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Meta Pixel
    Meta Pixel may help Us measure advertising performance, build audiences, understand Website activity, and deliver advertising through Meta services. For more information, visit:
    https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
  • X Pixel
    X Pixel may help Us measure advertising performance and Website activity related to X advertising services. For more information, visit:
    https://x.com/en/privacy
  • Microsoft UET
    Microsoft UET may help Us measure advertising performance and Website activity related to Microsoft Advertising services. For more information, visit:
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, product updates, and other information that may be of interest to You.

You may opt out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send, or by contacting Us.

We may use email providers, including:

Behavioral Remarketing and Advertising

The Company may use remarketing services to advertise to You after You access or visit Our Service.

We and Our third-party vendors may use cookies and non-cookie technologies to recognize Your Device and understand how You use Our Service so that We can improve Our Service, measure advertising, and show advertisements that may be more relevant to You.

These third-party vendors may help Us:

  • measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity;
  • show advertisements for Our products or services on third-party websites or apps;
  • measure and analyze advertising campaign performance;
  • understand whether advertising led to Website visits, product views, cart activity, or purchases.

Advertising and remarketing providers may include:

  • Google Ads
  • Microsoft Advertising / Bing Ads
  • Meta Ads / Facebook
  • X Ads / Twitter
  • Other advertising or social media providers

You may be able to opt out of interest-based advertising through:

International Users

The Service is operated from the United States and is intended for users located in the United States. We do not currently ship products to Europe, including the European Union, European Economic Area, or United Kingdom, and We do not intend to target or specifically offer goods or services to individuals located in those jurisdictions.

If You access the Service from outside the United States, including from Europe or another international location, You understand that Your Personal Data may be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.

If applicable privacy laws provide You with rights regarding Your Personal Data, You may contact Us to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction of processing of Your Personal Data. We will respond to such requests as required by applicable law and subject to Our need to retain information for legal, tax, accounting, order-fulfillment, fraud-prevention, security, dispute-resolution, or legitimate business purposes.

Facebook Fan Page

The Company operates a Facebook Fan Page named The Sicilian Farmer, accessible at:

https://www.facebook.com/thesicilianfarmer/

As operator of the Facebook Fan Page, the Company and Meta/Facebook may act as joint controllers or separate controllers for certain Personal Data processed through the Facebook platform.

Your interactions with Our Facebook Fan Page are also governed by Meta’s own terms and privacy policy. For more information, visit:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy

We may use Facebook Insights or similar tools to obtain aggregated or statistical information about interactions with Our Facebook Fan Page.

California Privacy Notice

The Company is not currently subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, commonly referred to as CCPA/CPRA, because The Sicilian Farmer’s sales and business activities are currently far below the applicable statutory thresholds.

Even though CCPA/CPRA does not currently apply to Us, We still aim to respect reasonable privacy requests from California residents and other users.

If You are a California resident, You may contact Us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of Personal Data that We maintain about You, subject to Our need to retain information for legal, tax, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, order-fulfillment, dispute-resolution, or other legitimate business purposes.

We do not sell Personal Data for money. However, like many websites, We may use analytics, advertising, remarketing, pixels, cookies, and similar technologies that may involve sharing limited Usage Data or identifiers with advertising or analytics providers.

You may control certain advertising and tracking technologies through browser settings, cookie preference tools, device settings, and third-party opt-out tools.

If The Sicilian Farmer later becomes subject to CCPA/CPRA or similar privacy laws, We may update this Privacy Policy accordingly.

Do Not Track

Our Service does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, You may control certain tracking technologies through Your browser settings, device settings, cookie controls, or third-party opt-out tools.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You believe Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us.

If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without appropriate parental consent, We will take steps to delete that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us.

If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, terms, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time.

We will notify You of changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Where appropriate, We may also notify You by email or by a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becomes effective.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Changes are effective when posted on this page.

Contact Us

If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us: